Wednesday, October 7, 2015

MORE LINES TO THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH DISCOVERED ~ hehe folks we's got a "covert" war on top of a "covert" war on top of ... a "covert" war go~in's ON right before "our" very i's & almost nobody C's ...it ? & 'it's' look~in more & more &more WHAT we've been "taught" is wait ..wait fer it ....wait ? ... bullshit ! ... Oops ya 'know' 2 cells took a shine 2 each other & ...beget & than more beget~in & ya know more beget~in & BAMMMM !!!! here's we ...r :o fuck me!!!! aren't ya, just fucking get~in tire of the bullshit ...Huh ...just a lil :0r

Many
of you shared this story with me, and I have to blog about it because
of all its inherently interesting possibilities for our trademark high
actane speculation. In Iraq, a tablet has been recovered which contains,
apparently, twenty lines from the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, part of ancient Uruk's mythology and cosmology. Here's the story:Epic of Gilgamesh grows by 20 linesNew clay tablet adds 20 lines to Epic of GilgameshThis sparks two very different lines of high octane speculation for
the day, the first concerning the lines themselves, as summarized in the
first article linked above:

The tablet adds new verses to the story of how Gilgamesh and Enkidu
slew the forest demigod Humbaba. Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, gets the idea
to kill the giant Humbaba, guardian of the Cedar Forest, home of the
gods, in Tablet II. He thinks accomplishing such a feat of strength will
gain him eternal fame. His wise companion (and former wild man) Enkidu
tries to talk him out of it -- Humbaba was set to his task by the god
Enlil -- but stubborn Gilgamesh won't budge, so Enkidu agrees to go with
him on this quest. Together they overpower the giant. When the
defeated Humbaba begs for mercy, offering to serve Gilgamesh forever and
give him every sacred tree in the forest, Gilgamesh is moved to pity,
but Enkidu's blood is up now and he exhorts his friend to go through
with the original plan to kill the giant and get that eternal renown he
craves. Gilgamesh cuts Humbaba's head off and then cuts down the sacred
forest. The companions return to Uruk with the trophy head and lots of
aromatic timber.(Emphasis added)

And then this summary from the second article linked above:

The aftermath of the heroes’ slaying of Ḫumbaba is now
better preserved (300–308). The previously available text made it clear
that Gilgameš and Enkidu knew, even before they killed Ḫumbaba, that what they were doing would anger the cosmic forces that governed the world, chiefly the god Enlil.(Emphasis added)

What I find suggestive here is the possible link to the whole idea of
the "cosmic war" hypothesis: a cedar forest representing "the cosmic
forces that govern the world," and a combat and slaying of a giant - a
very distant echo of the gigantomachy of Greek mythology - and the
resulting divine displeasure from Enlil. This is intriguing, because of
course, in the standard Greek, and even Old Testament view, the war with
the giants was a good thing, as was their destruction. But here, the
opposite moral assessment is implied.What is more intrguing to me, however, are the implications of the discovery itself, and how it was made:

How the tablet was discovered is notable as well. Since 2011, the Sulaymaniyah Museum
in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq was been paying smugglers to intercept
artifacts leaving the country, no questions asked. The tablet was likely
illegally excavated from the southern part of Iraq, and the museum paid
the seller of this particular tablet $800 to keep it in the country.

This intrigues me because years ago, in writing about the Baghdad
Museum Looting incident in the wake of the US invasion of Iraq, I
speculated that there were deep, and covert agendas in play. The first
was signaled by the presence of French and German archaeological teams
in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, digging up and cateloging any number of
priceless finds. Then there was the looting itself, which by all
accounts was executed by someone with "inside knowledge," which,
according to the initial reports in the German media, was carried out by
people dressed in American uniforms. While everyone rushed to blame the
USA for the looting, I wasn't so sure then, and I am not so sure now.
If anything, the ones with the most precise intelligence of what and
where to look, outside of members of Iraq's archaeological "inner
circle" themselves, would have been the French and German teams that
keep the field catalogues of what they were finding. Then there was the recovery of some of these stolen artifacts, mostly art works. What we did not
hear about were the stolen tablets, and these, for me, constituted the
real story. To this day, what was stolen, how much, and where it went,
is unclear. But this new finding of portions of the Epic of Gilgamesh
might be a partial clue: some of them, at least, remained in Iraq,
perhaps in the hands of guardians or perhaps even in the hands of people
who saw in them the literal cuneiform equivalent of gold, as an
economic hedge against the coming collapse of the country.But if that high octane speculation be true, then it equally
highlights the remaining problem: where are the other tablets, who has
them, and what do they contain? And I am still of the opinion that some
of them are in the hands of very high players, none of them in Iraq, and
that they were looking for things in them...